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A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader (White Crane Wisdom) (White Crane Wisdom)
by: Malcolm Boyd

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Binding: Library Binding
Dewey Decimal Number: 230
EAN: 9781590210116
ISBN: 1590210115
Label: White Crane Books
Manufacturer: White Crane Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 332
Publication Date: June 01, 2008
Publisher: White Crane Books
Sales Rank: 782696
Studio: White Crane Books

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Gay/straight, Christian/atheist, coffeehouse or pulpit, poet or prose, Malcolm Boyd is an exemplar of the American tradition of life's adventure and free-thinking. He is a gift to anyone who takes the time to encounter him in his writings.

To celebrate Malcolm Boyd's 85th birthday, and in recognition of the Lambda Literary Foundation's awarding of the Pioneer Award to him and his partner Mark Thompson for lifetime achievement, White Crane Books is proud to announce the publication of A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader, a compendium of five decades of his prose, poetry, prayers and interviews. This is the first collection of Boyd's writings assembled under one cover, offering the gamut of the man's heart, mind and soul to first-time readers or long-time readers alike. Compiled by Bo Young and Dan Vera, editors of White Crane: the Journal of Gay Wisdom & Culture, the collection begins with the first writings Boyd produced, reflecting presciently on his insider's knowledge and experience in the motion picture business and the American culture machine and span his coffeehouse years with comedian Dick Gregory and the early involvement as a Freedom Marcher with Dr. Martin Luther King. With thirty books written and/or edited to his credit, this is the first to offer the true measure of the man.

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- The first collected writings of a community elder
This is the first and only such collection of Malcolm Boyd's five decades of writings, spanning from his early years in Hollywood, through the strife of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Stonewall, and now as writer and poet in residence at the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

From the review in EDGE: Boyd was very active in the Civil Rights movement. His descriptions of the utter degradation and hateful actions against blacks in the South in his "Blind No More" series really opened my eyes. This is fascinating stuff, and well worth the price of the book in itself.

Essays, poetry, magazine articles and interview give as full a picture of this important cultural voice as has ever been published.

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